#soylent | Logs for 2025-04-09
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[01:04:13] <drussell> After all these years I finally opened a brokerage account, so today as a test I bought just under 1 share of AMD. (Less than one share has only $1.99 commission for the fractional share.) LOL
[01:24:43] <halibut> Probably should have started with either a non-US stock, or waited a little more for US-based stocks to fall further. You do not want to devalue your ~70USD (guessing on the current share price).
[01:48:55] <drussell> Oh, I sold all my US mutual funds before this nonsense started... I'm just going to take a position in a few companies I use and trust, long term, by slowly averaging some cash into the market on the way down this coming crash and burn
[01:50:01] <drussell> If I could still just buy ATI instead of AMD, I would be doing instead, of course...
[02:02:03] <drussell> As far as I know, about 15% of AMD's worldwide workforce is still in Canada... Not nearly as high as when they first acquired ATI, but it's still a significant Canadian tech firm.
[02:55:21] <halibut> Seems reasonable.
[04:09:36] <chromas> At least they hung onto the shitty release with driver fixes later system
[04:27:10] <kolie2> zero commission trading ftw.
[04:27:23] <kolie2> I got a shit ton of INTC stock I just picked up.
[04:28:11] <kolie2> Was day trading them the last month up 30%, and with the all time low rn I just threw it all in and plan to let it ride for a few months or take profits if it bumps any time soon
[04:28:27] <kolie2> fcking crazy market tho
[08:26:35] <Ingar> stock trading.. the financial illusion that you can earn money by doing nothing. the cause of most sores in our current society.
[08:26:50] <Ingar> (nothing personal, obviously, just an average soylent discussion :-D)
[10:14:49] <chromas> https://www.youtube.com
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[13:40:21] <Ingar> peers resetting my pipe.. damn you itnernets
[14:01:53] <kolie2> its all about the benjamins, baby
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[16:30:08] <kolie2> lol the ai agents article is hilarious
[16:30:35] <kolie2> I think people working with ai agents know exactly what they are. There are a bunch of snake oil people selling "AI" without knowing shit about it though.
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[16:52:46] <chromas> https://www.youtube.com
[16:52:49] <systemd> ^ 03The Worst Ocean's 11 Movie - Caravan Of Garbage.
[19:55:11] <drussell> kolie2: Yeah, if I had access to zero commission trading, I might try really "playing the stock market" too with a little side-money like gambling, but that's a crazy game )
[19:55:12] <drussell> :)
[19:55:42] <drussell> I know a guy who was day-trading for a few years, built him a special PC with 4 monitors on it so he could run his fancy analysis and trading software.
[19:56:40] <drussell> It was one of the first 4-channel memory desktop boards... He needed to work with these insanely huge data sets for whatever he was doing. Not in my wheelhouse, that's for sure... :)
[19:58:36] <drussell> That had to be close to 15 years ago now I guess, I think it was an ASUS Sabretooth X79 board IIRC
[19:59:31] <drussell> I think we put 64GB of RAM in it, which was a lot in those days.
[20:10:34] <drussell> Actually, now that I think about it, I think when I first built it for him, we used an AMD FX-8350, then when those LGA-2011 chips came out a couple years later we moved to the Intel on the X79...
[20:11:42] <drussell> Then he upgraded again after that to upgrade from DDR3, I think he traded those back into me, I put the FX-8350 into a gaming machine for my nephews, and I think he traded me back the Sabretooth also, now that I think about it...
[20:11:51] <drussell> I don't think I ever used that for anything...
[20:12:02] <drussell> I should use that for something...
[20:12:03] <drussell> Hmmm...
[20:12:28] <drussell> I'm pretty sure I have it around here somewhere...
[20:12:46] <drussell> I could run some VMs or something.
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